In re Department of Institutions & Agencies

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that “[t]he functions of the guardian ad litem and the attorney advocate are not sufficiently similar to allow one to ‘pinch hit’ for the other when the best interest of a juvenile is at stake.”
• “[W]e must presume prejudice where, as here, a child was not represented by a guardian ad litem at a critical stage of the termination proceedings.”
• “The functions of [GAL] and the attorney advocate are not sufficiently similar to allow one to ‘pinch hit’ for the other when the best interest of a juvenile is at stake.”
• \The functions of the guardian ad litem and the attorney advocate are not sufficiently similar to allow one to `pinch hit' for the other when the best interest of a juvenile is at stake.\
• “The functions of the guardian ad litem and the attorney advocate are not sufficiently similar to allow one to ‘pinch hit’ for the other when the best' interest of a juvenile is at stake.”

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